Parautas - Outras

Remember Thy Name

And then came the Visitations.

The fifth opus of the Worst Records library could appear as an audiobook for transcendental meditations. If the idea of trance-induced state is no surprise in the music we deliver to the world, this new album by Ricco goes beyond. The pair formed by Gil.Barte, head of Kump Records, and HLM38, in charge of house Notte Brigante, dare to offer a sinuous collection of mantras melted in light, silver dust and darkness. Each track navigates through ritualistic slow beats, drum'n'bass-ish half tempo incantations and other mystic hybrid forms not so far from Kode 9esque or Shakletonists reminiscences, just to name a few. The titles evoke a spiritual diagonal, from biblical to islamic worlds and arcanes, passing through persian tradition and obscure references hard to decipher. Several interludes, leading to the final Prelude, stand as resting rooms to drown the listener into purifying dark-ambient, where glitches of enlightenment and distants sounds from nature slowly disappear in divine drones. You now hold in your hands a keyholder to somewhere else, a sonic ally through everyday chaos, and spells to protect the soul.

Let yourself loose in enchantment.

A1 - Torq
A2 - Interlude4
B1 - Al Akhir
B2 - Interlude3
C1 - Seraphin
C2 - Interlude2
C3 - Dictatone
D1 - Interlude5
D2 - Leyla
D3 - Prelude

Release date : 12/04/2020

Artwork & design by Aurélien Arnaud
 Mastered by Paul "Pilah" Kozmik at Paul's Boutique studio
 Distributed by @chezemile

Visitations

WORST005 - Ricco - Visitations (previews)

Artist: Poperttelli https://soundcloud.com/poperttelli
Track: Ecoline
Label: brokntoys https://soundcloud.com/brokntoys
Release date: June 2020 
Format: Vinyl / Digital 
Pre-order: tba

DT PREMIERE: Poperttelli - Ecoline [BT42]

When Laura (Ondula) makes jokes out of my kind of extravagant elegance, or about her elaborated saturday-night hair-style, she says that’s “macadam mambo”! When I first listened to her saying this I found it very appropriate.

Sacha Mambo, the man who together with Guillaume des Bois, started the notorious label Macadam Mambo, has been one of Diapason highlights. During the past years Sacha and me were part of the same international underground party scene and ended up putting out a couple of my most known releases, which preluded to the most recent EP “That’s when the Animals turned into humans” made with Laura under the name As Longitude and featuring Twoonky and Paul Arambula. If I remember well, Laura, Sacha and me made the agreement exactly in mid July 2018, in Berlin, just before the night at Sameheads began.

The recent lockdown forced Sameheads to cancel our latest two episodes. Shifting to this hidden virtuality, we want to keep the tradition alive and have reached out to some of our past guests and assembled a Diapason Compilation Tape Vol. 1 featuring new music from some of the artists who inspired us.

https://soundcloud.com/mzkbx
https://soundcloud.com/sameheads

Pre-order

PRÉMIÈRE: Sacha Mambo - Prise D'Otage [Sameheads]

The awaited annual collection of Pushers from all over the world finally lands in this pandemic scenario.
A storytelling of 18 tracks, from ambient to electro.

NON SUMMER COMPILATION - NON REGGAETON SHIT

The release will be available from September in a limited series of 30 transparent orange tapes series.

Compiled by @Asymmetrical
Mastered by Giovanni Inglese at @FAUNA53

[RWCLTR014] RAW CULTURE'S PUSHERS 04 - VA [30 Limited Tapes Series]

>>> Preorder now via bandcamp: https://osare-editions.bandcamp.com/album/oe005-free-range-camry-horses

[ OE 005 ] : Free Range - Camry Horses (Snippets)

Pre Order: https://methotapes.bandcamp.com/album/gil-barte-r-s-f

Out Dec 3rd 2020

"Gil.Barte inaugure le catalogue du label de Meth.O.Tapes avec un LP aussi programmatique qu'habité. Basculant l'exercice du long format du côté de la recherche expérimentale bien plus que de la narration, l'objet nommé « R.S.F » est une collection d'images sonores intrigantes. Les tracks ne  commencent ni ne finissent vraiment, pièces d'un puzzle éclaté sans résolution apparente, se déroulant comme autant de pages d'un bestiaire fantastique oublié. Car il est question de variations formelles, de palette stylistique vaste, où l'exploration est à la fois impulsion et finalité jamais atteinte, en accord avec la volonté du collectif Meth.O.Tapes. Chaque créature sonore résonne de bribes imaginaires tantôt majestueuses, tantôt terribles, tantôt naïves, parfois mystiques, parfois naturalistes, plus oniriques qu'exotiques, toujours évocatrices. Un curieux objet musical, un objet poétique comme voulu par le collectif, car objet il y a, recueilli sous format cassette et coffret, forme-sens d'une boîte de Pandore aux mille et un mystères."

En:
"Meth.O.Tapes' catalogue opens up on a programmatic framework in the form of Gil.Barte's first LP. Developped as an experimental exploration rather than a narrative, this object called « R.S.F » is a recollection of intriguing sonic pictures. Tracks neither really start nor they finish, pieces of an apparently unreasolvable puzzle like pages of a fantastic bestiary long forgotten. It's also about form variations, a wide stylictic range, where exploration means impulsion as well as perspective, in accordance with the Meth.O.Tapes collective's motto. Each sonic creature evokes distant fragments, sometimes mejestic, or terrible, or even naïve, more or less mystical, rooted in nature, rather dreamlike than exotic, always mezmerizing. This is indeed a curious musical object we have here, a poetic object as wanted by the crew, and object it is as a tape or luxury boxset, meaningfull Pandora's box with thousands mysteries."

Alexandre Richet. 

Artwork by Manches Longues & Gauthier Plaetevoet.
Mastered at Declared Sound.
Manufactured at TAPE MUZIK - cassettes manufacturing.
Distributed by Meth.O.Tapes
Meth.O.Tapes 2020

MT001 - GIL.BARTE - R.S.F. - Album excerpts

Insistent, oddball machine funk from Sameheads resident Marlene Stark.

'Hyäne' is out November 27th on Lustpoderosa.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3l96zxC

@marlenestark
@lustpoderosa

Premiere: Marlene Stark - Was Ist Feucht? [Lustpoderosa]

KZH04 - Out 08/12/2020
Preorder : https://krakzh.bandcamp.com

THÉO MULLER - GOUZAÑV PE UNANIÑ LP [KZH04]

Psyclones: Tape Music 1980 – 1984
 
Since the early 1980s the Eureka, California based duo Psyclones freak out in music. As one of the most long-standing DIY duos, Brian Ladd and Julie Frith created a body of work, that flirts with Ambient, experimental industrial sounds, New Wave, Post-Punk, Synth-Pop, and all that electric jazz. Besides a few hard-to-find vinyl releases, they published their music regularly via cassette tapes on labels like their own imprint Ladd-Frith or other famed 1980's underground tape labels like Cause And Effect from Indianapolis, legendary San Francisco based Subterranean Records, Sound of Pig from New York, Insane Music from Belgium or the Spanish label Auxilio De Cientos to name but a few.
 
Now, Notte Brigante is dropping “Tape Music 1980 – 1984” – a detailed compiled sampler on Psyclones early output, that was scattered over diverse tape releases. A nine tracks long trip into the work of a highly underrated band, that never lost their drive to explore new avenues in sound. “Tape Music 1980 – 1984” displays their artistic impulse with a strong, minimal leaning post-punk feeling, spreading the early magic of a once new genre, that liberated rock music briefly from its bombastic male driven professionalism. Psyclones liberated large, while adding the repetitive patterns of drum machines, witchy female singing, cool male chanting, Tuxedomoon-ish weirdness, darkish synth sounds and dubby big city Angst to their cocktail of music. All balancing between icy wave coolness and nonchalant neon funk. Insane Music for sane people, smokers, rain lovers, midnight movers and all those cats, that can’t cope with the pre-written consumer life reality. If you chose to eat “Tape Music 1980 – 1984”, make sure to wear shoulder pads, bring an ashtray and turn your inner fog machine on.

Music recorded on cassette by Julie Frith and Brian Ladd between 1980 and 1984. LP mastered today from the original recordings.

Out around March 2nd, 2021, edition of 300 copies. Buy Vinyl & Digital: https://nottebrigante.bandcamp.com/album/psyclones-tape-music-1980-1984

A1. Departing Was For Sure
A2. Neon People
A3. Reagan For Shah
A4. Keep It Together
A5. Between Space
B1. I Don't Know
B2. News Of The World
B3. In And Out
B4. With The Other

Distribution: www.crevetterecords.be
Mastering: Brian Ladd
Artwork : Jad Hussein - www.look-specific.com
Text: Michael Leuffen

Moneyyy!

NB005 - PSYCLONES - Tape Music 1980 - 1984 LP

Le collectif Meth.O.tapes place la forme naturelle du cercle autant au centre de son nom que de ses axes d’expérimentation considérant sa symbolique d’unité, de boucle ou de renouveau comme point d’équilibre de ses recherches.
Tournant autour ou tentant de voir à travers le son et ses formes, il joue avec cette matière en tendant vers l’installation, la performance ou la production et l’édition d’objets poétiques.